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The English Department has selected Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut novel, Nervous Conditions, for the 2009 Text and Community Program. Each spring, Text and Community fosters a collaboration between the English Department and other Mason departments and organizations, with professors encouraged to adopt the chosen title in their course work and students encouraged to read the book on their own, all with the goal of approaching a single text from diverse viewpoints and across a variety of disciplines.

February marks the annual celebration of Black History Month. On Wednesday, February 20, the events will culminate with the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture by Dr. Tyrone Forman, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.